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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 221, 1 September 1932, Page 11

The damage done to homing pigeons by aerial wires in the vicinity of their lofts was referred to in a report presented to the committee of the Otago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals by a sub-committee which had been set up to investigate the position. The report stated that in some places where many wireless aerials existed in the vicinity of homing lofts the birds undoubtedly did occasionally come into contact with the wires, principally on account of the fact that they could not see them in the evening when they were returning from longdistance flights. Some of the aerials carried corks at intervals along their length, and those the birds could see, but tho bare aerials were almost invisible to birds flying fast in a poor light. It was decided to make an tippc-.il to owners of wireless aerials in proxL.iit.v to homing pigeon lofts to p’.ui ■ '<o" I lie aerials and thus prevuut . . i ijiiiy to valuable birds.